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Rationale
I understand that many of you have jobs, families, other
courses, and a myriad of obligations. It is not easy to juggle all these
responsibilities; I admire your tenacity to get an education and will
help all I can.
There are two major objectives of this course (bulleted below)
Both of these objectives are negated
by submission of late work.
Students will learn:
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to write better
I am always happy to help students; however, I am not here to merely
get you a good grade, nor should that be your overriding concern. It
should be to become a better write which will be of great value in
your college life. Assignments are basically sequential. They follow
a pattern of reading, prewriting, writing, peer critiquing. Along
the way I and peers provide feedback to help the writer with the
next assignment. Assignments submitted late will not benefit
properly form this process and only serve to fill in grades. Late
work will not help a student meet this important objective.
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to scheduling,
prioritize, be punctual, and follow direction for better written
results.
Assignments submitted on time and appropriately lend themselves
to helpful feedback, peer input, timely corrections, and
allow for possible Internet interruptions. Learning to write
better occurs over time with lots of feedback and assistance along
the way. Late assignments or those not meeting requirements
of submission makes it difficult to receive proper and useful
feedback. It doesn't help students learn to be responsible and seems
to heighten expectation of
preferential treatment that will not serve you well throughout your
college experience.
Additionally, just as
you have countless obligations, so do I. As your instructor, I
allot much time and energy to this class. I have my time carefully
scheduled to insure that the work you submit gets my full attention, so I can get it back to you quickly with useful feedback. I take your
work seriously and give it plenty of time; however, once I am done with
your class, I move to my next responsibility on my schedule. Late\emailed
work is not included in my schedule and will either get lost and clog up
my email, or not reach my attention until after its usefulness has
expired for a subsequent assignment. It becomes an exercise in you just
doing it to amass a grade which defeats my objectives for good
education.
All assignments are listed, with open & close dates, on the Class
Schedule on the Welcome Page to give you ample time to figure them into
your schedule.
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